On politicians, the lifelong Republican supporter said:
-- "It appears that the president taped all his conversations in the Oval Office," he said of disgraced Republican Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal that toppled him. "I just hope that 18 minutes of missing tape included some of the bad jokes I told him."
-- "It's not hard to find Jerry Ford on a golf course -- you just follow the wounded," he said of the former president noted for his clumsiness.
-- "The Republicans wanted to balance the budget but after seeing what the Democrats left they found they had to budget the balance."
-- "I played golf with him yesterday," he said of former US president and army general Dwight Eisenhower. "It's hard to beat a guy who rattles his medals while you're putting. Ike uses a short Democrat for a tee."
On war and military topics:
-- "I was on the way to my hotel and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction," he told an audience after he narrowly escaped a bomb blast at his hotel in Saigon in, then, South Vietnam.
-- "The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life."
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